In a recent study conducted at Harvard University, researchers found “no evidence that trigger warnings were helpful for trauma survivors, for participants who self-reported a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, or for participants who qualified for probable PTSD, even when the survivors’ trauma matched the passages’ content.” Let us first confront the question of whether trigger warnings do the job they are alleged to do – that is, protect students with PTSD from reexperiencing traumatic experiences. Not only do they fail to do that, but they undermine the resilience of all Cornellians and risk encouraging cognitive distortions commonly observed in mentally ill patients. Trigger warnings were proposed as a means to protect students with PTSD. The Tragic Consequences of Good Intentions
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